To the under 30s

[chrisso]

my 1st car (in 1977) was a 1951 Ford 10. 3 spd, devon slicer cross plys, no brakes-top speed maybe about 60 mph?---never found out as a truck crashed into it 23 hrs after buying it & wrote it off.
Ah youse young whippersnappers in your overcomplicated Motey-vehicles

[portokiwi]

Remember the mighty chopper push bikes. Then graduated to the ten speed.
Good to see scate boards are still around.
The whip and cane, I would like to forget them lol. Had it enough times.
reading comando commics. (yes I cant spell)
records yes records not compact discs or even tapes lol.
doc martins, Ladies pic a berry. Oh the list could go on.

[scumdog]

Pah! - the EIGHTIES???

TRy the 60's, ah, those were the days - two pieces of fish and a heap of chips for 9d - about 7.5 cents

Black and white TV only - ran from 5pm to 10pm.

New Suzuki50 cost $299 brand new.

3/6 a gallon for petrol... (35 cents for 4.54litres)

[cs363]

Gee you had it good!!! Now in MY day there WAS NO TELEVISION!!!! Nor Atari nor anything like that.....when I needed a pair of shoes I had to go and catch my own cow first, then kill it, skin it, tan the hide into leather, cut it out, sew it up etc etc etc...and that ALL had to be done before the forty mile walk to school.....! Through the snow, through the avalanche, over the desert, swim the river, fight off the crocodiles, outrun the bandits....and that was in Hamilton!!!!....I could go on......

Leather shoes?
Look cherie.....you were lucky....


Here for those too young to remember or just plain haven't seen it is the script to the 'Four Yorkshiremen' skit by Monty Python which sums this up completely:

Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort.
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.

Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?

Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.

Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?

MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

GC: A cup ' COLD tea.

EI: Without milk or sugar.

TG: OR tea!

MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.

EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."

EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.

GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!

MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.

EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.

GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!

TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

MP: Cardboard box?

TG: Aye.

MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

ALL: Nope, nope..

[rymer22]

and im guessing you had to stand in the cow pats to keep ya feet warm as well ,
Damn funny , bloody bull shit

How about wrapping barbed wire round ya feet to get traction in the snow and ice ! Now th@s hard !

[slofox]

Leather shoes?
Look cherie.....you were lucky....

Well leather were NEW FANGLED in them days it were..latis fashion it were an orl...hadta keep oop wif joneses....!

And I did love that skit........Bill Cosby did a wonderful audio track on the same topic as well........

[slofox]

Here ya go......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt33zqib2qk

[cs363]

Here ya go......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt33zqib2qk

Nice work - you forget how good some of Cosby's old stuff was

[Ixion]

You guys had it easy! My first car had 8hp, two cylinders, rod-actuated brakes a 3sp crash box, a wooden frame, no water pump, a top speed of 38mph, (about 60km/h for you youngsters...), etc. Back then you were well off if your car had a heater and valve radio!

Jowett ?

I recall when TV was introduced to NZ. It was so rare that people used to get up "Go and stand outside the home appliance shop and watch the TV in the window" parties. Used to be crowds 10 and 20 deep outside the store. Only ran for two hours a day to start. Not at all on Sunday.

[The Pastor]

old people smell funny

[Edbear]

Jowett ?

I recall when TV was introduced to NZ. It was so rare that people used to get up "Go and stand outside the home appliance shop and watch the TV in the window" parties. Used to be crowds 10 and 20 deep outside the store. Only ran for two hours a day to start. Not at all on Sunday.

Got it in one! A 1950 Bradford. Loved it but blew it up regularly! Got real quick at replacing valves and pistons...

Was fun on the road, if you put too heavy a load in back, the front wheels would lift off at about 35mph...

[NOMIS]

> If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
>
> When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears With their
> tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were
> growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school
> every morning
>
> .. Up hill...
>
> BOTH ways
>
> Yadda, yadda, yadda
>
> And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, There was
> no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on
> kids about how hard I had it
>
> And how easy they've got it!
>
> But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of Thirty, I can't
> help but look around and notice the youth of today.
>
> You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you
> live in a damn Utopia!
>
> And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how
> good you've got it!
>
>
>
> I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we
> wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and
> look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
>
> Then queue at the Photostat machine - no one owned a printer
> at home. - What a luxury to print! We also had to write out
> all our assignments by hand - no quickly 'type it up'
> business.
>
> Back then typing was also a 'Subject' at school - and only
> girls did typing. And if you f ---- up or made a spelling
> error - no 'spell check' or 'undo typing' on your tool bar -
> you had to type up the dam thing from scratch - certainly had
> to be an A+ speller.
>
> There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a
> letter, with a pen! ..Then you had to walk all the way across
> the street buy a stamp and put it in the mailbox and it would
> take like a week to get there!
>
> Back then corporal punishment at schools was part of life -
> getting a couple of jacks were the norm - and your Mom and Dad
> usually sided with the teacher. Today they can't touch your
> ass!
>
>
> There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music,...
> you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it
> yourself!
>
> Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and
> the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all
> up!!!!
>
> No GPS - Had to be able to look it up on a map - and know your
> north from your south.
>
> We did photos the old fashion way - on film - then handed it
> in and had to wait a week for it to get back from the lab -
>
>
> We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on
> the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal,
> that's it!
>
> And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone
> rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school,
> Your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a
> collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it
> up and take your chances, mister!
>
>
> We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video Games with
> high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With
> games Like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a
> little square!
>
> You actually had to use your Imagination!! And there were no
> multiple levels or Screens, it was just one screen Forever!
>
> And you could never win. The game just kept getting Harder and
> harder and Faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
>
> Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only
> m-net and there was no on screen menu and no remote control!
>
> You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out
> what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!
> You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change
> the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could
> only get cartoons on Saturday morning. Do you hear what I'm
> saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK ror cartoons, you spoiled
> little rat-b?..s!
>
> And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something
> up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!
>
> When we went on holiday - We had to sing songs, play 'eye spy'
> or if you're lucky had a pack of supper trumps cards - no
> in-car DVD player to shorten the trip through the karoo or
> Freestate. - I forget we also had to pack in 'Pad kos' cause
> there were no service stations with add on wimpy's or
> convenient stores - you coul= d only get petrol from a petrol
> station.
>
> Also shops were closed on Sundays - and certainly couldn't buy
> wine on a Sunday - let alone go to a Mr.Price - didn't exist
> then.
>
> We all got the dam chicken pocks, measles and mumps - no
> vaccines for that - our parents voluntarily exposed us to the
> dreaded illnesses. With the line 'best to get it over with
> when they are young'
>
>
> That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got
> it too easy.
>
> You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted Five minutes
> back in 1980!
>
> Regards,
> The 30+ Crowd

well all the 20's plus shared in about half of this, I know I did I didnt get our first computer untill I was about 15-16. all my school work was done by hand so where letters, by the time we had a computer I had left school. no playstation, I built tree huts that the council had to cut down. music was taped aswel :-( what a sad child hood hahaha jks,

[cs363]

old people smell funny

What are you doing sniffing them? That's plain weird....

[slofox]

old people smell funny

And some of the younger ones just plain STINK.......(specially the really young ones.....)

[avgas]

You guys had it easy! My first car had 8hp, two cylinders, rod-actuated brakes a 3sp crash box, a wooden frame, no water pump, a top speed of 38mph, (about 60km/h for you youngsters...), etc. Back then you were well off if your car had a heater and valve radio!

So you have a Peugeot 405 as well then?